Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 21:10:44 -0400
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> I want someone to show me the precise line of the ANSI and/or ISO C
> standards where they say that there have to be newlines at the end of
> files.

ISO/IEC 9899:1999, Section 5.1.1.2 "Translation Phases", line 10 (part
of the description of preprocessing phase 2) states:

 "A source file that is not empty shall end in a new-line character,
  which shall not be immediately preceded by a backslash character
  before any such splicing takes place."

(the splicing refers to the backslash-newline syntax)

Note that GCC will enforce this on ALL platforms, not just djgpp.